Summer Jazz Series returns to Waynesville

The Summer Jazz Series returns for the month of July at The Classic Wineseller in Waynesville. The series takes place at 7 p.m. July 5, 12, 19 and 26.

The series includes Serpentine Jazz on July 5, with performances of songs recorded by Billy Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone; the Jesse Junior Quartet on July 12; Rockell Scott and Bill Bares on July 19, with standards performed from the Great American Songbook; and the Radiance Quartet on July 26, with Latin Jazz.

Reading Room

“In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

— George Orwell

We live in an age — the relativity of truth — in which Orwell’s adage seems as dated as monocles or top hats. Just as Darwin’s theory of evolution led to Social Darwinism, a philosophy pitting one human being against another with survival of the fittest as the supreme law for success, so Einstein’s theory of relativity changed popular philosophy and cultural mores as radically as it did the study of physics.

This Must Be the Place

Outside the Tipping Point Brewing windows on Main Street, heavy snowflakes cascaded upon downtown Waynesville last Wednesday night. Cars cautiously cruised through the intersection, with the snowfall increasing as the minutes ticked by.